Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly ...

Just 12 years old when his father, Jean de Brunhoff, died of tuberculosis, his father had done the first illustrations of Babar which originated as a bedtime story his wife, Cecile, would tell ...